Julia Hodges

“When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.”
― Confucius

“Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Only on love's terrible other side is found the place where lion and lamb abide."
'What's that?" he asked sharply.
"something of Mado's. Marguerite Dominique de la Valeur Renier." She drew out the syllables lovingly. "My husband's grandmother. Your great-great-grandmother. Love's terrible other side. The other side of the sun. You can't go around it, Theron. You have to go through it.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Other Side of the Sun

“The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.”
― Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum